Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Ethics
The Ethics Breakfast is a series of conversations exploring pressing ethical questions with guest presenters in conversation with a rabbi, comparing contemporary approaches with Jewish perspectives.
Next Session: Sunday, May 11 - "Media Integrity and Bias in a Changing World" with Alana Newhouse
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Past Ethics Breakfast Event
October 22, 2023
Who is responsible for AI?
With Art Kleiner, Professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program Principal at Kleiner Powell International (KPI) and co-author of The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology
November 19, 2023
The Right to Die: Ethics of Assisted Suicide
With Alan Astrow, Chief of the division of hematology and medical oncology at New York–Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, where he focuses on the care and medical treatment of breast cancer. He is also adjunct clinical assistant professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary where he teaches Jewish medical ethics.
December 17, 2023
Suspending the Law and Muting the Facts: Ethics of Compromise
With Heela Capell, NYC Civil Court Judge, Nominee for NYS Supreme Court.
January 21, 2024
Artificial Intelligence and its Urgent Ethical Challenges
With Ernest Davis, Professor of Computer Science at NYU. Co-author of Rebooting AI:Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust.
March 3, 2024
Precision Parenthood: Creating Designer Families
With Anne Cantor, Board Certified Genetic Councelor
April 7, 2024
The Crime of Punishment: Ethics of Incarceration
With David Rothberg, Broadway producer, Founder of The Fortune Society.
September 22, 2024
Morality & War
With Michael Walzer, Professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and one of America’s foremost political thinkers. He is the author of over 25 books including Just and Unjust Wars; War, Politics, and Morality; and Arguing About War. Currently, he is working on issues having to do with international justice and the connection of religion and politics, and on a collaborative project focused on the history of Jewish political thought.
November 17, 2024
It's Legal, But Is It Ethical
With Jeffrey Hollender, Entrepreneur, Author and Sustainability Advocate.
December 15, 2024
Privacy vs. Security
With Muhammad Faridi, President, NYC Bar and Civilian Representative to the NYPD Handschu Commitee.
January 15, 2025
Is criminal justice about truth?
With Bruce Green and Joel Cohen
Bruce Green is the Louis Stein Chair at Fordham Law School, where he directs the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics. He chairs both the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination drafting committee. He is also a member and past chair of the NY State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics.
Joel Cohen is senior counsel at Petrillo Klein & Boxer. He is a former prosecutor who is an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School, and his essays and columns have been published in the New York Law Journal, The New York Times, Slate, Huffington Post, The Hill and Law & Crime. He served as a member of the New York Commission
February 23, 2025
Ethics Breakfast Series: Mental Health and Crime: What can we do?
With Lisa Schreibersdorf and Yung-Mi Lee, Executive Director and Legal Director of Brooklyn Defender Services.